Catalpa Creek: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Mississippi
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Chelydridae
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Macrochelys temminckii
(Troost 1835)
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Franz and Quitmyer 2005 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Emydidae
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Emydoidea blandingii
(Holbrook 1838)
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Geochelone crassiscutata
(Leidy 1889)
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recombined as Hesperotestudo crassiscutata | ||||||||||
Gopherus polyphemus
(Daudin 1802)
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Franz and Quitmyer 2005 | |||||||||
This specimen is a water-worn XIPH | ||||||||||
Geochelone sp.
Fitzinger 1835
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Mississippi | County: | Lowndes |
Coordinates: | 33.5° North, 88.4° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 33.5° North, 88.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | unlithified silty,sandy claystone |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Glacial or sequence phase: | glacial |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,trace |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | observed (not collected) |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 164396 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | L. Harfoush, E. Vlachos |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | ||
Created: | 2014-12-02 04:18:36 | Last modified: | 2014-12-04 10:10:58 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-12-02 04:18:36 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
53644. | J. A. Holman. 1976. Paleoclimatic Implication of "Ecologically Incompatible" hereptological species (Late Pleistocene; Southeastern United States). The Herpetologists' League 32(3):290-295 [M. Uhen/L. Harfoush] |
Secondary references:
66358 | R. Franz and I. R. Quitmyer. 2005. A fossil and zooarchaeological history of the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) in the Southeastern United States. Bull. Fla. Mus. Nat. History 45(4):179-199 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |